Mrs. Marylou Speaker Churchill Violin Master Class Boswell Recital Hall

中華表演藝術基金會 Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts The 17th Annual Music Festival at Walnut Hill Concerts and Master Class August 1 - 22, 2008 Except the August 20’s Esplanade Concert, all the events will be held at the Walnut Hill School, 12 Highland St. Natick, MA 01760. ($5 donation at door)

Wednesday, August 13, 2008, 2:30 PM

Mrs. MaryLou Speaker Churchill Violin Master Class Boswell Recital Hall

Program

1. Gemma Chang: Bach Sonata No. 1, Adagio 2. Chun-Chia Chang: Tchaikovsky Concerto No. 1, 1st mvt 3. Tony Yang: Bruch: Scottish Fantasy 1st mvt 4. Virgil Yu: Vitali Chaconne 5. Dennis Hsiang: Sindling: Suite Op. 10.

Marylou Speaker Churchill

Marylou Speaker Churchill has given numerous recitals across the United States, and has appeared as soloist with the Boston Pops under Arthur Fiedler, John Williams and Keith Lockhart, as well as the Ural Philharmonic (Russia) under Sarah Caldwell, and orchestras in Brazil, Japan and the USA. Ms. Churchill joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Boston Pops in 1970 and was appointed to the position of Principal Second Violin in 1977. During her three decades with the BSO, she worked extensively with William Steinberg, Erich Leinsdorf, Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, Sir Colin Davis, Bernard Haitink, Claudio Abbado, Klaus Tennstedt, James Levine and Andre Previn. She was a violinist with the Boston Symphony Chamber Players from 1993 until her retirement in 2000, touring in Europe and South America, and recording with them the Shostakovich Piano Quintet, which was nominated for a Grammy in 2000. In the summer of 2001, she was the violinist in the world premier at Tanglewood of Portraits for soprano, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano by Richard Danielpour with Cynthia Hayman, William Hudgins, Yo-Yo Ma, and Emanuel Ax. Churchill was invited by Sir George Solti to be faculty and Principal Second Violin of the Carnegie Hall Solti Project in 1994, and a year later, he invited her to lead the second violins in the "Musicians of the World" orchestra concert held in Geneva, Switzerland to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the United Nations. Churchill coaches for The New World Symphony Orchestra in Miami Beach, Florida and has been a violin coach for the Asian Youth orchestra in Hong-Kong, and youth festivals in New Zealand and the USA.

Churchill is married to conductor and cellist Mark Churchill, and they have twin daughters, age twelve. At Commencement 2006, Marylou Speaker Churchill received NEC's Louis and Adrienne Krasner Teaching Excellence Award.

B.M., NEC. Violin with Joseph Silverstein, Catherine Peterson, Raphael Spiro, and Eudice Shapiro. Chamber music with Eugene Lehner, William Kroll, Felix Galimir, Alexander Schneider, and Robert Mann. Former faculty of Tanglewood Music Center, Musicorda Summer Chamber Music Program at Mount Holyoke College, Boston University Tanglewood Institute, and University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Current faculty of New England Conservatory and the Heifetz Institute. Updated details at: www.ChinesePerformingArts.net Concerts and Master Classes Schedule, August 1-22, 2008

1. Monday, 8/4: 7:30 PM: (at Orchard Cove Retirement Center, Canton, MA) Mr. Nai-Yuan Hu 胡乃元, violin and Prof. Pi-Hsien Chen 陳必先 piano Program: All Schubert Program Sonatina in D Major, Op. 137, No. 1, D. 384 Sonata in A Minor, Op. 137, N0. 2, D. 385 Sonata in G Minor, Op. 137, No. 3, D. 408

2. Thursday, 8/7: 1 pm: concerto competition: Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 1

3. Friday, 8/8, 7:30 PM: Faculty recital Faculty members including Lynn Chang 張萬鈞, Pi-Hsien Chen 陳必先, Bion Tsang 章雨亭, Nai-Yuan Hu 胡乃元, and others will perform.

4. Saturday, 8/9: 7:30 PM: Performance by the rising stars of this festival: Kathy Lee, YinFei Wang, Gemma Chang, Yating Yang, Tina Huang, Ta-wei Tsai, Dennis Hsiang, Qi Kong Program: piano and violin works by Bach, Chopin, Liszt, Wieniawski, Mozart, Snding, and Ravel.

5. Sunday, 8/10: 7:30 PM: Recital by Mr. George Li, piano Second prize winner of 2008 Gina Bachauer International Piano Junior Artist competition Program: Haydn: Sonata in E major, Hob. XVI/31 Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No.11 Chopin: Nocturne in C# minor, Opus Posthumous Ravel: Alborada Del Gracioso Beethoven: Sonata No.14 in C sharp m inor, Opus 27 No. 2 (Moonlight) Chopin: Scherzo No. 2 in B flat minor, Opus 31 6. Monday, 8/11: 7:30 PM: Lecture/Performance by Nai-Yuan Hu 胡乃元: “The Sound of Music, Bach A minor solo sonata”

7. Tuesday, 8/12: 7:30 PM: Recital by Prof. Hung-Kuan Chen 陳宏寬, piano Program: Brahms: op. 116 no.4, Beethoven: Sonata op. 101, Brahms: Variations on a Theme of Paganini Bartok : Out of Doors Suite , Rachmaninoff Sonata

8. Wednesday, 8/13: 2:30 PM: Mrs. MaryLou Speaker Churchill violin master class.

9. Wednesday, 8/13: 7:30 PM: Lecture/Performance by Prof. Pi-Hsien Chen 陳必先: “Music after Schoenberg’s”

10. Friday 8/15: 2:30 PM: Ms. Gillian Rogell Chamber Music Master Class

11. Friday, 8/15, 7:30 PM: Recital by Mr. Minsoo Sohn, piano First Laureate of the 2006 Honens International Piano Competition Program: TBA

12. Saturday, 8/16, 1 PM: Mr. Laurence Lesser cello master class

13. Saturday, 8/16, 8 PM: Longwood Symphony Orchestra, Jonathan McPhee, Music Director, Program includes: Prokofiev Piano Concerto No.1: Wesley Chu, winner of the 2008 Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts Concerto Competition

14. Sunday, 8/17: 3:30 PM: Mr. Russell Sherman piano master class

15. Sunday, 8/17: 7:30 PM: Recital by Mr. Zenan Yu 于泽楠, piano winner of 2007 New England Conservatory Piano Concerto Competition

Program: J.S.Bach transcribed by Busoni: "Nun komm'der Heiden Heiland,"BWV 659 Brahms: Piano sonata No.3 in F minor Chopin: Scherzos Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4

16. Monday, 8/18: 7:30 PM: Prof. Yehudi Wyner Chamber Music Master Class

17. Wednesday, 8/20: 7:30 PM: Longwood Symphony Orchestra at Hatch Shell on Boston Esplanade Jonathan McPhee, Music Director, Program includes: Prokofiev Piano Concerto No.1: Wesley Chu, winner of the 2008 Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts Concerto Competition.

18. And 19. Thursday, 8/21, 2 PM and 7:30 PM: Student Showcase Gala Concert 1 and 2

* * * * * * The Faculty Members of the 17th Annual Summer Music Festival include: (a partial list)

Piano: Tema Blackstone, Mount Royal College, Calgary, Morningside Music Bridge Sylvia Chambless, New England Conservatory Hung-Kuan Chen 陳宏寬, Chairman, Piano Department of Shanghai Conservatory Pi-Hsien Chen 陳必先, Hochschule fur Musik Freiburg Meng-Chieh Liu 劉孟捷, Curtis Institute of Music, Roosevelt University Russell Sherman, piano master class, Distinguished Artist-in-residence of New England Conservatory

Violin: Lynn Chang 張萬釣, New England Conservatory, Boston Conservatory MaryLou Speaker Churchill: violin master class, former Boston Symphony Orchestra Principal Second violin Nai-Yuan Hu 胡乃元, former faculty of Hartt School of Music

Viola: Gillian Rogell: New England Conservatory

Cello: Michael Bonner, Longy School of Music Laurence Lesser: cello master class, President Emeritus, New England Conservatory Carol Ou, New England Conservatory Bion Tsang 章雨亭, University of Texas at Austin

Chamber Music: Yehudi Wyner, Chamber Music Master Class, recipient of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Music

Clarinet: Thomas Hill, New England Conservatory, Longy School of Music

Percussion: Robert Schulz: Brandeis, Harvard and Tufts Universities. Grammy Award nominee 2004.

Coming Events 2008-2009

1. Saturday, Sept. 20, 2008 at the First Church of Boston Youth Poetry in Silk and Bamboo: First Annual Chinese Music Instrument Competition 絲竹春吟: 第一屆青少年中國器樂比賽

2. Saturday, September 27, 2008, 8 pm at Jordan Hall Chuan-Yun Li 李傳韻, violin Robert Koenig, piano

3. Saturday, October 25, 2008, 8 pm at John Hancock Hall “Sound of the Ocean” by U Theatre 優人神鼓

4. Saturday, January 10, 2009, 8 pm at Jordan Hall Winners of Young Concert Artists International Audition: Chu-Fang Huang, piano Daxun Zhang, double bass

5. Saturday, March 21, 2009, 8 pm at Jordan Hall: Meng-Chieh Liu 劉孟捷, piano